In Alaska, we must also be vigilant to another brewing geopolitical hotspot, the melting Arctic. Arctic competition is ...

Discover why Russia colonized Alaska in the 18th century. Explore the economic, strategic, and geopolitical motivations ...

The Arctic is undergoing profound environmental shifts, marked by unprecedented warming and ecosystem changes. A critical ...

U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, said the U.S. military also deployed a guided missile destroyer and a Coast Guard vessel to the western region of Alaska as Russia and China began the "Ocean-24 ...

Alaska Airlines Russia flights were a bold post-Cold War experiment connecting Alaska with Siberia in the 1990s.

A federal appeals court panel refused to vacate the approval of the massive Willow oil project on Alaska’s petroleum-rich North Slope though it found flaws in how the approval was reached.

Satellite imagery, provided to Newsweek by Planet Labs, shows three aircraft on the main apron at the Anadyr airbase in Russia's Chukotka region close to Alaska on May 26, 2025.

China, Russia send 11 military vessels near Alaska, U.S. responds with 4 Navy destroyers 01:32. Russian warplanes were detected flying off the coast of Alaska and tracked by the U.S. military, the ...

Fighting it out over the Arctic, with the vast resources of the Arctic, is going to be the new great game of the twenty-first century,” Steve Bannon, who served as chief strategist early in President ...

For $7.2 million in gold (which would be about $160 million in today’s dollars), the U.S. would take Alaska off Russia’s hands. But Seward still needed to overcome congressional opposition, ...

Russia has likely not moved one of its nuclear-capable heavy bombers further from Ukraine, analysts and satellite imagery indicate after reports suggested Moscow had transferred one of its hefty ...